A father of two children who had been admitted to Kandy General Hospital with serious head injuries had died yesterday.

Sources said that he had sustained head injuries when his angry wife had allegedly squeezed his neck and pushed him down, a family dispute having gone beyond control.

The deceased is Sarath Gamini (37) of Kivuldeniya in Dedigama police division. His wife who was employed abroad had come back home recently.

Dedigama police sources said that this had been a quarrelsome family. Police had received constant complaints regarding disputes between the husband and the wife. The deceased’s wife had been taken into custody on suspicion. She was due to be produced before courts.